I wish to make a special appeal to mothers to take up the sacred responsibility of keeping the lamp of sangita (music) burning bright in their homes and to instill a love for good music in their children from a tender age.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In music, the passions enjoy themselves.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Beyond Good and Evil"
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
-Luciano Pavarotti
I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
-Don Piper
"90 Minutes in Heaven: A True Story of Death & Life"
Music is the strongest form of magic.
-Marilyn Monroe
Anything can become music if listened to long enough.
-Jeff Noon
Music is very personal. It means different things to different people. To you it means belonging. To me it means knowing I exist.
-Simon Cheshire
"Plastic Fantastic"
Music, once admitted to the soul becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; Music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.
-Edgar Allan Poe
